• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.16-21
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• 2015

Most video services are transmitted in wireless networks. In a network environment, a packet of video is likely to be lost during transmission. For this reason, numerous error concealment (EC) algorithms have been proposed to combat channel errors. On the other hand, most existing algorithms cannot conceal the whole missing frame effectively. To resolve this problem, this paper proposes a new Adaptive Prediction Unit-based Motion Vector Extrapolation (APMVE) algorithm to restore the entire missing frame encoded by High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). In each missing HEVC frame, it uses the prediction unit (PU) information of the previous frame to adaptively decide the size of a basic unit for error concealment and to provide a more accurate estimation for the motion vector in that basic unit than can be achieved by any other conventional method. The simulation results showed that it is highly effective and significantly outperforms other existing frame recovery methods in terms of both objective and subjective quality.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.84-86
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• 2006

An informed watermarking algorithm is proposed in this work that aids in concealing packet loss errors in video communications. This watermark-based error concealment(WEC) method embeds a low resolution version of the video frame inside itself as watermark data. At the receiver, the extracted watermark is used as a reference for error concealment. The proposed DCT-based algorithm has features of informed watermarking in order to minimize the distortion of the host frame. At the encoder, a predictive feedback loop Is employed which helps to adjusts the strength of the scale factor Furthermore, some of the modified coefficients of the DCT signal are virtually free from distortion by employing bit- sign adaptivity. The performance of the detector is Qualitatively analyzed for error concealment applications where full-frame DCT embedding proved to be more advantageous.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년도 제37회 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.2113-2115
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• 2006

This paper proposes a spatio-temporal correlation algorithm that takes advantage of the spatial and temporal correlations in video streams for error concealment. The spatio-temporal correlation algorithm sets the neighborhood area of the damaged part as a reference window, then finds the area that best matches the reference window in the previous frame. The best-matched area in the previous frame replaces the damaged part in the current frame. The results of ten variations of the proposed algorithm are compared with conventional error concealment methods. These methods include the ones applicable to P-frames as well as I-frames. The comparison results show that the proposed algorithm is very efficient for l-frame error concealment with a large motion between frames.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.21-30
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• 2009

In low bit-rate video transmission, the payload of a single packet can often contain a whole coded frame due to the high compression ratio in both spatial and temporal domains of most modern video coders. Thus, the loss of a single packet not only causes the loss of a whole frame, but also produces error propagation into subsequent frames. In this paper, we propose a novel whole frame error concealment algorithm which reconstructs the first of the subsequent frames instead of the current lost frame to suppress the effects of error propagation. In the proposed algorithm, we impose a constraint which uses side match distortion (SMD) and overlapped region difference (ORD) to estimate motion vectors between the target reconstructed frame and its reference frame. SMD measures the spatial smoothness connection between a block and its neighboring blocks. ORD is defined as the difference between the correlated pixels which are predicted from one reference pixel. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm effectively suppresses error propagation and significantly outperforms other conventional techniques in terms of both peak signal-to-noise ratio performance and subjective visual quality.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.167-169
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• 2005

The occurrence of a single bit error in transmission bitstream leads to serious temporal and spatial errors. Because moving picture coding as MPEG-2 based on block coding algorithm uses variable length coding and motion compensation coding algorithm. In this paper, we propose algorithm to conceal occurred error of I-frames in transmission channel using data of the neighboring blocks in decoder. We divide a damaged macroblock of I-frame into four sub blocks and compose new macroblock using the neighboring blocks for each sub block. We estimate the block with minimum difference value through block matching with previous frame for new macroblocks and replace each estimated block with damaged sub block in the same position. Through simulation results, the proposed algorithm will be applied to a characteristic of moving with effect and shows better performance than conventional error concealment algorithms from visual and PSNR of view.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -1
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• pp.599-602
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• 2002

A new approach of error concealment using a digital watermarking technique for interframe video coding is presented in this paper. In the proposed method, the most important feature of the reference frame is extracted. Then, this feature is embedded into the prediction error of current frame prior to transmission. Error concealment is achieved by means of recovering the erroneous reference frame using the embedded data before the reconstruction of current frame is performed. Simulation results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.574-582
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• 2006

In this paper, a new error concealment algorithm is proposed for the H.264 standard. The algorithm consists of two processes. The first process uses a fuzzy logic method to select the size type of lost blocks. The motion vector of a lost block is calculated from the current frame, if the motion vectors of the neighboring blocks surrounding the lost block are discontinuous. Otherwise, the size type of the lost block can be determined from the preceding frame. The second process is an error concealment algorithm via a proposed adapted multiple-reference-frames selection for finding the lost motion vector. The adapted multiple-reference-frames selection is based on the motion estimation analysis of H.264 coding so that the number of searched frames can be reduced. Therefore the most accurate mode of the lost block can be determined with much less computation time in the selection of the lost motion vector. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm achieves from 0.5 to 4.52 dB improvement when compared to the method in VM 9.0.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2008년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.927-928
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• 2008

In this paper, a interpolation error concealment algorithm of motion compensated interpolated frame for motion compensated frame rate conversion to reduce the block artifacts caused by failure of conventional motion estimation based on block matching algorithm is proposed. Experimental results show good performance of the proposed scheme with significant reduction of the block artifacts.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제29권1C호
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• pp.72-82
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• 2004

본 논문은 MPEG-2 인트라 (I) 프레임의 더욱 강화된 오류 은닉 기술을 제안한다. MPEG-2 소스 부호화 알고리즘은 가변장 부호화를 사용하기 때문에 채널 오류에 매우 민감하다. 채널에서 발생된 전송 오류는 오류 정정 기술을 사용하여 보정되지만 제대로 보정되지 않은 오류는 디코더에서 오류 은닉 기술을 사용함으로써 시각적 왜곡이 최소화될 수 있다. 또한 GOP의 시작 프레임인 I 프레임의 오류는 움직임 보상 예측 부호화 방식으로 인하여 다른 인터 프레임에 전달되어 더욱 심각한 화질 저하를 가져온다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 오류 은닉 방식은 I 프레임에 발생된 연속적인 슬라이스 오류를 인접한 인터 프레임의 시공간적 정보를 이용하여 기존 방식보다 효과적으로 처리하는 방식이다. 이 방식은 기존의 방식들이 갖는 시간적 그리고 공간적에서 발생하는 단점을 효율적으로 개선할 수 있으며, 전송 오류가 심한 망에서 발생되는 극심한 슬라이스 오류에서도 좋은 시각적 효과를 얻을수 있다. 알고리즘은 MPEG-2 비디오 코덱 범위에서 수행되었으며 모의실험을 통하여 제안된 방식이 다른 방식들보다 높은 PSNR과 개선된 시각적 효과를 확인할 수 있었다.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.9-14
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• 2017

무선 환경에서의 패킷 손실은 비디오 통신과정에서 심각한 비디오 품질 저하를 초래한다. 이 논문에서는 블록의 신뢰도와 블록 경계면 매칭을 기반으로 한 비디오 에러 은닉 기술에 대해서 제안한다. 손실된 블록의 모션 정보를 참조 프레임의 동일한 위치에 존재하는 블록의 모션 정보를 복사하여 사용함으로써 임시로 손실된 블록의 잡음을 은닉하고, 블록의 신뢰도를 기준으로 블록의 신뢰도가 낮은 경우에는 추가적으로 블록의 경계면 매칭을 이용하여 모션 벡터를 재탐색하여 잡음 은닉에 대한 정확도를 높이도록 하였다. 실험을 통해서 제안된 기법이 다양한 패킷 손실 환경에서 우수한 에러 은닉 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.